The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-09-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

q strike at Shamokin, Pa, MOncay. The
ask for an advance.
A group of five saw mills located (
st. Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, burne
last Saturday, causing loss of $27O, ,OO(
By the giving way of church floor d
Needville. Tenn, during revival meetln
last Sunday seventy people were injured
some of them fatally.
The Constitutional centenia,, in honor O
the signing of the Declaration of Inde
pendence, opened at Philadelphia Thurs
day with large attendance.
Rev. Washington Glenn, a Methods
preacher residing near Parkstone, Dakota
is under arrest for an attempt to debaucl
his own 16 year old daughter.
Thomas Kelly, Michael Grove and an
other man were buried alive in the new
aqueduct at North Yonkers, N. Y, Friday
The were buried under 1875 feet of eartl
which caved upon them.
Johann Most, the anarchist, made appli
cation in New York, Monday, to declare
his intention to become citizen, but was
refused by the chief clerk of the supreme
court. He said he would appeal to the
courts.
Near South Hart, Dakota, John Nc
Near, freight brakeman, fell between
two moving cars and was run over and IN
stantly killed Monday. He was but re-
Gently married and leaves young wife to
mourn his death.
A white man shot an Indian near Nc
Leod, N. w. T., Monday. The white
man had left his tent, and on returning
found young buck drinking his whisky,
whereupon he shot him. The Indian is
not expected to live.
Two prisoners escaped from the United
States penitentiary at Sioux Falls, Dako-
ia, last week by knocking down, binding
and gagging the guard and procuring his
keys. One was confined under sentence
for mail robbery for 12 years and the 9th
er 10 years for murder.
The St. Louis Typographical union has
notified those employing printers that
henceforth 9 hours shall constitute days
work and s hours on Saturday, the pres
ent schedule of wages to remain the same.
The employers have declared the demari
unjust and strike is imminent.
Advices from Tucson, Ariz., state
that tremendous flood has swept fully
twenty miles of track of the Southern Pa
cifc railroad between Tucson and Benson.
Officials of the Southern Pacific declare
that it will cause an entire cessation of
traffic over the souther route for at least
two weeks.
At Manchaca, fifteen miles south of
Austin, Texas. officers attacked band of
train robbers last Saturday, supposed to
be the gang that pelpetrated the Nc
Neil and Flatonia train robberies some
months ago. Two of them were wounded
and one killed. One of the officers was
also wounded.
Secretary Whitney has invited the men,
bers of the senate and house naval COM
mittees and a number of other persons
interested in the subject to go down to
New York bay on the Dispatch to witness
the test of the dynamite gun on the Goth
inst, when an effort will he made to des-
troy schooner by dynamite shells.
A construction train on the Aspen ex-
tension of the Midland road, consisting of
an engine and two cars of railroad iron
and 2S7 track layers, was deralled near
Lake Ivanhoe, Colorado, Monday morn
ing. The cars turned completely over,
burying the men under the iron and kill
ing four and seriously injuring sixty -one.
The engineer and fireman escaped unhurt.
New Haven Special: Miss Tucker, a
girl of nineteen, daughter of John S
Tucker, former state representative, has
married 1bhn W. Hanchett, her fathers
;olored coachman. She colored her face
md the ceremony was performed by the
7illage minister. The girls father IS IN
pursuit of them, and threatens to shoot
Hanchett on sight.
About thirty bucks of the Yankton |
Sioux threaten violence to the surveyors
md special agents who arc now engaged
n alloting lands in severalty to the In
lians on the Yankton reserve, and troops !
rave been ordered there to enforce peace |
md the orders of the department. The
belong to the non-progres-
i've element Of the tribe.
The washouts by recent storms on the
Southern Pacific railway extend from the
river to the Dragon mountains.
The Dragon grade, much of which is
fifty feet high, is washed out in one place
distance Of eight miles. Several hund-
ed men are at work repairing the breaks.
large quantities of pe.ishable freight is
,lockaded at Tucson, large amount OF